Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
NOTE AND COMMENT.

for the overland Journey into the heart of
Africa.
The prohibition amendment was de-
feated in Texas. after Il hard fight on
both sides. The majority against it was
nearly 100000. The only city in the
State that went Republican was Fort
Worth.
The jury at Chicago found the whole
eleven "boodlers guilty, Friday. Sew
ell of them were sentenced to two wears
Imprisonment each and the rest to pay
$1,000 fine each. This is bad year for
" boodlers.'
secretary Whitney appoints two
to become assistant naval constructors.
says "A current item. 1t is to be hoped
that they will prove apt scholars. Our
navy department needs competent con-
structors. The fact that the new Attain
ia was nearly wrecked by the recoil of
her own guns shows this.
An idea of the magnitude of the pres
ent operations of the pension bureau may
be drawn from the fact that the mail of
letters received at the bureau and sent
out from it averages more than l2,000 a
day. The total number of pension GER
tificates issued during the fiscal year Just
ended was $40. of which 50, ,l9l were
original allowances. This is the largest
business ever cleared off the desks in one
year. The amount paid out for pensions
during the year is not vet fully ascer-
tained, but will probably exceed 574,-
000 900.
Southerners are changing their tune
with respect to the tariff. The Virginia
Democrats at their State convention, the
other day, resolved that eve favor
raising the revenue requisite for the sup
port of the federal government by tariff
upon imports, tlimited to the necessities
of the government economically admin
istered and so adjusted in application as
to prevent unequal burdens, encourage
productive interests at home. the devel-
Opment of material resources and afford
just compensation to labor, but not to
foster mOnopolies."
An English free-trader. writing in the
Nineteenth Century. holds out IA pleasant
prospect for American wOrkmen should
free trade become the national policy.
He says: "The only advantage we have
over the United States is, as | have said,
that we have cheap labor. and because
of our cheap labor and that only,
can we send into her markets raw mate
rial and manufactured goods despite her
heavy import duties. The import duties
of the United States, however. are being
gradually but surely lowered, and she is
tending toward the adoption of free trade
When the United States adopt free trade
or anything approaching it the price IF la-
Dor In America ,rW come dotcia".
Mr.. Lucius Bigelow, formerly of thi.
State, is now editor of the Portland Ore.
= gonian. He says in Il recen4ssue of thai
journal: ''ln their anxiety to deride the
Grand Army of the Republic, because OF
its hostility to the President, an admins
tration scribbler in New York writes tina
: the usual legacy of war is with us
= The camp has returned to us chiefly
= drunkards and demagogues.' This su
= perticial and flagrantly unjust strictur,
e on the Union veterans is worthy of som,
( cheap provincial fish horn fellow, who
e if not drunkard, is certain to be "A dem
\ agogue. Those who were drunkards anC
a demagogues before the war doubt
5 less returned very much such men a
; they went, hardly worse; for the sterl
: realities of camp and battle were entirel,
opposed in influence to demagoguery
= and certainly of those who went to wa
sober, sturdy men, no appreciable mum
: Der returned that did not bring back
more capacious mind and a manlier sou
a than they first gave to the cause tina
n called them to do and dare. Those VIII
: really made war came home ennobled an
enlarged by the discipline of commo
y perils, tolls and sacrifices that, met am
: endured, inevitably developed sturd
r manhood. Those who played war, seek
u ing the bubble reputation, yet alway
4 evading the cannon's mouth, who wor
the garb of soldier, and played the par
of politician and poltroon, of cours
went out demagOgues and came back a
It they went, but the great wave of refiueI
II soldiery was not made up of such a
n these, but were glowing fellows VIII
l. went out with the horns of their prom
h ising courage and heroism just buddin
=, or in the velvet and they came bac
Il with that incipient valor grown into tn
}. hard antlers of a crest of glory.n